Chapter 294: Chronic Death

"Hoo..."

"Hoo... cough, cough..."

"Damn it... why is it so cold today??"

On a road covered in frost and snow, a figure wrapped in a thick fur coat was running, gritting his teeth. Steaming white mist drifted from the corners of his mouth, condensing into fine ice crystals in an instant...

Yan Shang didn't know how far he had run. In any case, when he looked back, he could no longer see the chaotic scene on Century Avenue, and no one was chasing him, which made him exhale in relief.

Ever since he single-handedly established the All-Stars Chamber of Commerce, he had never engaged in such strenuous exercise. Just a few minutes of running felt like it had drained his body completely.

"That bunch of useless trash... couldn't they have driven the car a bit further up?"

Yan Shang could have sat calmly in his car after making a huge profit and driven straight to the Inter-Realm Train station. Century Avenue wasn't far from there; he could have made it in a few minutes. But now, those few minutes of distance felt incredibly long in his eyes.

Just as Yan Shang was cursing Heart of Red 6 and his useless subordinates, a car slowly drove around the corner.

Seeing the car's license plate, Yan Shang’s eyes lit up, and he immediately quickened his pace to run toward the car... It was his chamber of commerce’s car!

Seeing Yan Shang running over, the car stopped sensibly. As Yan Shang pulled the door open and sat inside, his body finally warmed up a little.

"Chairman, there were too many people on Century Avenue just now, I'm late." The driver apologized.

"Not late! You're just in time!"

Yan Shang slumped into the back seat, panting heavily. "Quick... drive!"

"Yes, Chairman."

As the car slowly started, Yan Shang watched the streets receding outside the window, his heart filled with joy. He finally didn't have to run to the station himself. With the temperature outside being that low, he figured he would have only had half a life left if he had run there.

"Strange... is this the way to the station?" Yan Shang saw the car slowly turn and enter a remote road, a flicker of doubt appearing in his eyes.

"Chairman, the main road is full of people, and there are frozen corpses on the ground; it's impossible to drive through."

Yan Shang nodded slightly, just about to close his eyes in relaxation, when he suddenly thought of something.

"That's not right... you've been with me the whole time, how would you know that road is impassable?"

The driver, one hand on the steering wheel, turned to look at the back seat and chuckled.

"Guess?"

A human-skin mask peeled off the driver’s face. At the same time, a gun muzzle was already aimed at the terrified Yan Shang in the back seat, and the trigger was pulled!

Bang—!

The power of [Judgment] erupted from the muzzle like a silent bullet capable of decomposing everything, shooting toward Yan Shang’s forehead in the blink of an eye. Yan Shang’s expression changed instantly!

Just then, a shattering sound came from Yan Shang’s inner pocket. A blue light bloomed out of thin air, colliding with the deconstruction bullet and erasing it in mid-air in the blink of an eye.

[Heart of Red 6]?!!

Taking advantage of this momentary opening, Yan Shang opened the car door in terror and jumped out with all his might, not caring that the car was still moving!

He rolled on the ground like a ball several times, mud and snow instantly covering the surface of his expensive fur coat. Yan Shang felt like he was falling apart... but he couldn't care about that now. He scrambled up from the ground, stumbling as he fled into the distance!

Chen Ling sat in the car, braking slowly. He looked at the panicked figure through the rearview mirror, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.

"Lots of sacrificial artifacts, huh... I want to see how many times you can save yourself?"

On the desolate road, the cold wind howled.

Because there were no houses nearby and no buildings to block the wind, the temperature here was even lower than in the city center. Yan Shang’s eyelashes and lips were almost frozen shut. He endured the stinging pain on his face and forced himself to keep walking.

He never imagined that [Heart of Red 6] would actually chase him, and torture him in this way...

To be honest, if [Heart of Red 6] had confronted him head-on, Yan Shang wouldn't have been afraid. If he threw out three or four sacrificial artifacts in one breath, even if he couldn't kill Red 6, he could stall him for a few minutes. But the opponent didn't play by the rules. This kind of unexpected assassination left him with no idea where the danger would come from, so he naturally couldn't respond.

Yan Shang had been running wildly on the road for less than two minutes, and he was already too frozen to walk. He felt his breathing becoming shallow and his steps heavier, as if he would collapse completely before long... He knew he had to find a way to warm up.

Just then, he saw a family at the corner of the road, huddled around a basin of burning coal. The fire-red coal radiated its final light and heat in the cold winter, like a miniature sun.

Yan Shang’s eyes went straight. He stumbled toward that direction, his legs giving way, and he knelt down beside the stove.

Seeing someone suddenly appear, the family was startled, looking at him with suspicion and uncertainty, wondering what he was up to.

"Let me warm up for a while... let me warm up! Just for a while!" Yan Shang tremblingly took a piece of jade from his hand and placed it by the stove. "Take this, it's yours."

The man in the lead hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and returned the jade to Yan Shang.

"No need, it's just one more spot anyway... This coal was bought with our family’s savings. If one more person can be saved, this money is well spent."

"Yeah, we just saved an uncle, and we didn't ask for his money either," the child on the side said.

Yan Shang was stunned. "Someone else came by on this road just now?"

"Yeah, he's sitting right across from you."

Yan Shang looked in the direction the child pointed. Across from the stove, a figure in a brown coat was sitting there, smiling at him...

"We meet again, Chairman Yan."

The next moment, a gun muzzle slowly rose.

Bang—!

Yan Shang screamed. This time, no blue light bloomed from his body. A large hole was instantly blown into his shoulder, and he fell backward onto the ground.

It's him!! It's him again!!

At the same time, Yan Shang’s other hand quickly reached into his pocket, crushing something. The surrounding space suddenly froze, and Chen Ling and the others were all locked in place.

A sharp pain came from Yan Shang’s shoulder, making his face deathly pale. He crawled up from the ground while wailing, stumbling as he walked into the distance... At this moment, he had no intention of resisting at all, only thinking of desperately getting away from this Red 6. Fear had completely occupied his mind.

Perhaps because the weather was too cold, Yan Shang’s shoulder soon lost all feeling. He walked past the corner and returned to the city area, where the number of burning stoves and residents warming themselves increased.

Yan Shang didn't dare to stop to warm up anymore, but gritted his teeth and walked toward the station... He knew he was very close to the station now.